Secret yeast boost for the Republic!
By: JimOldfield
November 15th, 2012
Recent start-up Sunny Republic is claiming an international coup, as the first UK brewery to import a special Belgian Trappiste yeast – kept secret for centuries by monks!
The Dorset brewers have used the Rochefort Abbey strain – used by monks to brew the world-famous “Dubbels” and “Trippels” – to brew their own Winter-warmer, “St Wite’s Ale”.
Sunny Republic, which only started trading in May, says the monk’s yeast has given its existing Dorset Cross beer an extra dimension of “spice and fruit”.
The brewers added that “no expense was spared” creating the single batch of the one-off 5 per cent ale.
And they have described their creation as a “very easy drinking and moreish ale”, which is “almost like a drinkable Christmas pudding or mince pie”.
The beer sold out in Sunny Republic’s brewery bar within 30 minutes, and most of the remaining casks are already earmarked for export to Sweden and Australia.
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